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MONOGIIAPUS OF NOUTII AMERICAN llODBNTIA. 



Taiilk XXXIV.— J/ca»Hi-emeii(« of twentii ipecimem of Ociiktodox LoxaiCAUDA. 



OCHETODON MEXICANUS, (Do S.) Coues. 



lieilkrodon mrxicanm, Dk Sai'ssuiie, Rev. & Mag. Zonl. 18G0, p. — (p. 27 of the separate reprint). — ToMEf, 



Proc. Zool. Sac. 18G1, 284 (Guatemala). 

 Ochetodon mexioanus, CouKS, Proc. Acad. Nut. Sci. Philu. 1874, Wi, 



Diagnosis. — O. maximus, caudd Irunco longiore, pedibus validissimis , 

 murino-bmmieus, siibtus ex brunneo albidus, lateribus suhflavicantibus. Long 

 lot. 2J-3, caud(B 3-3;], pedis 0.70-0.80. 



IIaiiitat. — Mexico {De Saussure, Sumichrast). Guatemala {Tomes). 

 Louisiana (Saint Charles College). 



Larger than eitlier of the foregoing ; upward of 3 inches long, with the 

 tail averaging 3J, thus much exceeding the head and body, as in O. longi- 

 Cauda, but feet much larger thin in that species, 0.70 to 0.80 (whereas the 

 feet of longicauila are barely larger than those of humilis, very seldom touch- 

 ing 0.70). Upper parts a rather warm mouse-brown (rufous or dull ferrugine- 

 ous, not mouse-gray), wiiich on the sides usually grows brighter, and is 

 sometimes almost crange-brown ; this, again, fading on the under parts into 

 a muddy-whitirth (not wiiite at all). Tail extremely scant- liai red, nearly as 

 naked as in Mas musculas, in dried specimens appearing nearly unicolor; 

 in alcoholic ones, dull pale brown above and whitish underneath. Hands and 

 feet whitish above (like the tail Jinderneath). 



